Please can someone tell me if my dd is lying? iPhone question

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She says she can't have find my iPhone turned on as she deleted it for storage, is that possible?

I don't want to have to ask her to but I'm increasingly worried about her and what she's doing

You can also check exactly how much storage she has left and see how much each app etc is using up in storage. On her phone go to: Settings > General > iPhone Storage

WhatsApp share my location for up to 8 hours

Absolutely no jogging then. (Is there a chance she is not doing what she says? Though they also don't like us to know where they are "just because")

In the message box there's the option to Share Location and the other person gets a pin of your location on the map. You can set a time frame such as 1 hour. However I think that feature is very power and internet intensive, usually only used for people meeting up and unable to find each other in crowded locations. If you want to track her for longer periods, use an Apple Airtag

I have a 15 year old and having Find my iPhone with DH and I having the ability to view their location is non-negotiable. Doubly so if they are jogging at 6am.

You are the parent she is the child. When she returns from her run, take the phone off her. Check her social media. Check her search history. If you are worried she’s up to something harmful, you need to find out!

When my daughter said she was going for a walk at 6am, that wasn't all she was doing. I'd be wary of the "jogging". And if she's nothing to hide then why can't she reinstall it? As PP have said it doesn't use much space.

I don't want to sound harsh but I wasn't strict enough and thankfully all is now fine and we're out the other side but I'd just be wary.

What was she doing?

I don't think this means she's not jogging but for some reason she maybe doesn't want you to know what she's up to at other times of the day!

Yeah I would be skeptical of a teenager going jogging at 6am to be fair.

If she 'doesn't have enough space' for find my then she needs to pay for extra iCloud storage. It's mere pence a month.

She needs to delete photos/videos and/or other apps to free up storage.

If she doesn't have enough space she can delete something else to reinstall it .

I would say she can’t go jogging then (I also have a 15 year old daughter). Location sharing is a proviso of the freedoms she has. If they don’t want to share their location at that age, there’s a very good chance they’re being dishonest unfortunately.

This. It's not difficult at all.

She's 15. No location sharing, no jogging at 6am, or she can fess up about what she really wants to do at 6am. Because if it was jogging, she can delete a video or two and put it on.

It is possible to “delete” find my from your iPhone. Technically it isn’t deleted but a 15yr old isn’t going to know this bit of esoteric info. You remove it like you would any other App so it seems deleted.

If you got an iPhone with say only 64GB storage, she could have a point about lack of storage and/or lack of data allowances as find my uses data when out and not at home using WiFi.

You might want to consider an iCloud+ subscription to add more storage and then activate family sharing so she can access the iCloud+ storage and you can track and see how much is being used.

You also might want to consider upgrading her data allowance on her cell phone package if you want her to have find my active everytime she is out of the house.

Finally, if the objection based on logistics is masking an objection based on privacy, you may have to compromise with her on how to reassure you she is ok without her feeling constantly watched, monitored and tracked. My teens refused find my and with a teen you know they will turn it on as you stand over them and then as soon as they are 5mins away will turn it off. This will then cause battles of will, grounding, defiance, worse behaviour etc.

I instead said how about you send me texts saying you have arrived at friends house, or to gym, or at bus stop with ETA…and told them if after dark and walking to call & we can chat while they walk home.

You can also have location turned on in imessage so when you click the persons name in your message you can see location!

Yep… she’s up to something. A boyfriend or girlfriend. Freedom to roam must come with conditions - for safety reasons. The world is not a safe place and kids think they know everything.

Plenty of people leave for work at 6 am. Do you think she's going to someone's house then?

What time does she usually come back from jogging? Is it clear she's been running?

It’s really not necessary. If something happens while jogging, the police can trace a cell phone without find my or other location sharing activated and even if the phone is turned off. She goes jogging at 6am and presumably returns home within a fairly predictable window. If she disappears, you call the police. Simples. Having find my turned on won’t make a bit of difference to the police.

Does she have Snapchat? You can follow her on that too. It's pretty accurate.

Not all teens are sex fiends.
At 15 I was very sporty and I was up at 6am and often cycled to the gym at my high school or ran round the track before classes. I can imagine a health conscious teen just going for a jog at 6am. That is a normal time to exercise.

And realistically, tracking her by watching find my in bed at 6:10am isn’t going to make her safe.

This is more about distrust than safety and teens are not stupid.

I do think she is jogging. She's very into fitness. At other times maybe she's up to something? She doesn't have a girlfriend or boyfriend as far as I know.
I have older kids and never asked them to turn it on as I wouldn't want to be tracked myself. Just want her to have it on when she's jogging and bloody text me when she's out in the evening to say where she is and when she's back as a minimum but that often doesn't happen

She's turned location of that off, on my recommendation actually !